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Every week, Japanese game magazine Famitsu releases a list of the most anticipated games. The list varies somewhat from week to week, but it does give you a good idea of what Japanese gamers are looking forward to.

After striking a chord with so many fans during its original run, Nodame is coming back for an encore. Barring kid-friendly classics like Dragon Ball or Detective Conan that get grandfathered in thanks to their nostalgia factor, not many anime or ...

Feb26 "C'mere you little puffballs! " Ugh, I realized when I typed up the title of this post that we're now more than halfway finished with KonoSuba. Nooooooo, we can't be! We need more! Even if it's Snow Sprites.

The smartphone game Neko Atsume has taken over the cat-obsessed world by storm, and this time round you'll get to actually collect cats in real life . . . with the help of these toys! Japanese pet supplies company Petio and game developer Hit-Poin...

Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai is over sixty years old. Film prints have become worse for the wear, which is why movie studio Toho is going back and restoring the picture in 4K, making it more beautiful than ever.

Officially licensed furniture also functions as a cushion or massive stuffed animal. Pikachu may be Pokémon's king of crowd-pleasing cuteness (and dancing), but that doesn't mean that the other Pocket Monsters don't have their own specialties whic...

The third episode of the Gundam the Origin anime adaptation, Gundam the Origin III: Dawn of Rebellion, makes its Japanese theatrical debut on May 21. Ahead of that we have an English-subtitled preview via the Gundam.

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival is, well, pretty much what it sounds like: a yearly award show that bestows prizes on the best anime of the year. The nominations for best anime of the year are out for this year's TAAF.

The glare of the bulbs. The blinding dust of the spotlight, and the faces beyond. The way the art moves through you or abandons you, and meets the audience in turn. Expression of the self and more under the lights, where the open stage can either ...

By Joel Couture . February 25, 2016 . 6:00pm Anodyne, a top-down adventure game that takes place inside a man's subconscious and has players fighting enemies with a broom, is now coming to PS4. Anodyne draws inspiration from The Legend of Zelda, b...

Fans of Japanese manga, anime, games and cosplay will have more to look forward to in July this year. Leading Entertainment Company, Bushiroad Inc, in partnership with ASATSU-DK INC. , SOTSU CO. , LTD.

Additional details about the upcoming Kamen Rider Ghost and Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger crossover revealed how this crossover will work this time. Unlike the previous two Kamen Rider and Super Sentai TV crossover specials, this crossover is more simi...

By Chris Priestman . February 26, 2016 . 5:30pm Final Fantasy Record Keeper's new challenge event, Destiny's Path, lets you recruit Jecht, Yuna, and Tidus from Final Fantasy X. As always, if you already have one of these characters then you'll get...

With the new Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Red and Blue just a day away, fans may be happy to learn that these versions have retained the MissingNo. glitch, as is evident in the video below. The Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Red, Blue,...

An early look at next week's issue of Shoen Jump has offered a preview of the new visual for the TV anime adaptation of My Hero Academia. Gundam Build Fighters' Kenji Nagasaki will helm the Bones (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Noragami, Space Dandy)...

The upcoming release in theaters of the 20th film in this series with Detective Conan: Pitch Blac Nightmare is getting closer and now TOHO is getting some of the first big advertising pieces in place. The distributor has now released a new TV spot...

The official website for the upcoming original TV anime Hai-Furi today announced that it will premiere on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV and Gunma TV on April 9. An advance screening event for its first episode will be held at the auditorium in Memorial Shi...

By Stewart Greene Feb 26, 2016 So far Netflix has been pretty successful with its original programming. Production I. G, the group producing this new project is also responsible for Anime classic 'Ghost in the Shell'.

If you can't get enough of ERASED, also known as Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi, there is also a live-action film, which will be premiering in March. MaiDiGiTV has started streaming two new videos from the upcoming film.

B'z new song "Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru" (English title: "The World will Become Your Color") has been chosen as the theme song for the new 'Detective Conan' film "Meitantei Conan: Junkoku no Nightmare" (English title: "Detective Conan: The Dar...

With the time difference in play, it's right about now that the next Sailor Moon PROPLICA item is heading into fans hands with the release of the Rainbow Moon Chalice. The 1:1 scale item was announced back in October and is being released on Febru...

Cat caretaker asks for cat food on Twitter, gets way more than she bargained for! Some days, the world can feel like a downright crappy place. . . and then a story comes along to reinforce your faith in humanity and make you think everything is go...

Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans the question: What anime series would you want to watch on your last day alive? And from thousands of fans, most of the responses are from the male fans (36. 9%), female fans (63.

Cheeky Parade is a 9 member idol group formed on February 19th, 2012 as the second artist under avex's idol label, "iDOL Street. " Cheeky Parade debuted with BUNBUN NINE9' on January 9th, 2013, and released C.

The sugar-induced gorging of Dagashi Kashi has extended to the realm of matsuri treats as the anime's numerous characters indulge in the festivities, further boosting the charming romance between Kokonotsu and the tsundere Saya as well before "new...

This is an RSS version of the original article. Please visit www. otakustudy. com for the full post. While Odin Sphere Leifthrasir might be a port of its original PlayStation 2 release, it is being enhanced in many ways to provide a rewarding and ...

It is confirmed today that TMS Entertainment (Detective Conan, Lupin The Third) is now working on a TV anime adaptation of Naoki Shigeno's four-panel historical comedy manga Nobunaga no Shinobi (Nobunaga's Ninja).

'螺旋' (Rasen) "Spiral" Family is a common theme in Boku Dake ga Inai Machi that was very unexpected when I first started this series. The idea of appreciating the family that you have or leaving a terrible family behind is so prominent that it actu...